SQL Server product of Microsoft is offered with a reporting service feature that is very useful. The Microsoft Reporting Services or Microsoft SSRS will let you design a whole lot of reports from the database that SQL Server provides. What the Microsoft SSRS lets you do is to design reports templates, get them filled in…
The term Business Intelligence (BI) easily confused with some related processes. These include data analytics, big data and data science. Business Intelligence or SQL Business Intelligence (BI) helps users derive actionable intelligence/information from analyzing available data through software tools. These tools, Business Intelligence software, help business managers take better decisions. Sometimes, these insights can provide…
The RDBMS product offering of Microsoft for the enterprise and desktop is the MSSQL Server. Since its first appearance as a product for the PS/2+OS/2 environment in the late eighties, it has evolved through several different versions. These versions have been released roughly at a 2 year interval. The very first product was a joint…
Microsoft released the first version of the software application MS SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) tool back with the SQL Server 2005 version. By then the base product SQL Server had grown so much in terms of features offered that there was a need for a tool that can help administer, set up, configure and,…
One of the heavily used tool/services available for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is the report builder tool. Users could create a wide variety of reports and be able to manage them systematically through this reporting service. SQL server integration services and SQL Server Analysis Service and the SQL Server Reporting Services make up a vital…
Each of Microsoft SQL Server products released over time comes in several versions and is directed for different user populations. However, what they have in common is that each new release of SQL Server always contains a version named SQL Server Express. In the 2014 version it is a free product that allows users to…
The main product from Microsoft in the RDBMS category has been the SQL Database. The main query language supported is T-SQL which is the ANSI standard SQL extended by MS. MS SQL Server was first created for the PS/2 systems in collaboration with Sybase and Ashton Tate. The first release was in 1989, an updated…
Microsoft has a database offering for quite some time. Their product, the Microsoft SQL Server, is a RDBMS (relational database management system). In the early days of the PC (PS/2 and OS/2 combo) era Microsoft SQL Server product was offered in collaboration with Ashton Tate back and Sybase. However, from 2005 Microsoft provides SQL Server product completely independetly. Initially Microsoft SQL Server was the database product…
Big data constantly grows. Predictions are that it will continue its’ expansion at around 60% yearly. Therefore, it is obvious that enterprises need a place where their growing database is living. Database that runs on the cloud platform – Cloud Database – provides this much needed space. There are two ways this can happen. First…
One of the best places to start looking, if you decided to learn T-SQL, is at its source or Microsoft’s resources. Microsoft offers T-SQL for querying its database, the SQL Server. Thus, one of the first places to look for T-SQL Tutorial would be the MSDN page. These resources have been updated for supporting T-SQL Tutorial for…